Naota Nandaba: Nothing amazing happens here. (recurring quote) Everything is ordinary. The huge factory that can be seen from our town, the Medical Mechanica Plant, all the adults got excited when it came here, like it was really a big thing. The white steam that billows out every day at the same time, it looked to me like smoke that signified some kind of omen. Smoke that spreads out and covers everything.

Haruko Haruhara: Native girl must stop! Taro-kun just hit his head so you can’t move him yet understand?

Mamimi: But he isn’t Taro-kun.

Haruko: He's dead! This young boy is completely dead, just as Taro would be.

Mamimi: But he's not Taro, like I said.

Haruko: Oh I killed him, I finally find the S.O.B. and I killed him. I didn’t mean to it was an accident, kind of. Ah lets face it I definitely totally killed him, just like that Bang! No more like bong, kablam or kunga ka-splat! yea yea yea . . .

Mamimi: Or like a panda with a mean face, or like sandals with pressure points drawn on them, or the smell of a blackboard eraser, or a Sunday morning where you wake up and it's raining. Well, I like him more than hard bread.

Naota: When you're on a bike, the ocean's a lot closer than you think. The autumn salt wind went right through to the back of my nose. And maybe it's because, like Haruko said, my head was empty.

Naota: At the time, I didn't notice the sirens that were coming towards us. I don't know where the lies end and the truth begins. I asked myself what I could do for Mamimi. I decided to stay by her side forever.

'[Haruko comes in causing a major car crash behind her, cat pops in randomly, she loses control, falls off, vespa goes flying and hitting Naota in the face again, Then him and Eri almost kissing, buuuut it doesn't go so smoothly, Eri sits up and sees Naota's cat ears, she tries to touch them...]

Eri Ninamori: But, we wouldn't tell anyone at school about this, right?

Naota:[drinking a soft drink] Of course not, people could say all kinds of things. Just don't hang out with me for the next couple of days, all right?

Eri Ninamori: But tonight is okay, right?

Eri Ninamori: What's really weird... is your ears...

Naota: What? You've seen them...?

Eri Ninamori: I was told not to touch them. So, what are they?

Naota: What do they look like?

Eri Ninamori: Like cat ears; perfect for playing a cat.

Eri Ninamori: You're Puss in Boots, the one who tricks the prince. He hides who he really is and pretends to be someone else forever. So in time he becomes that person, so his lie becomes the truth, see? He transcends the mask. Well, don't you get it? That's how he finds happiness. That's pretty good, right?

Naota:Ever since that day smoke has continued to pour out of the medical mechanica factory. The town is completely covered in white mist, you can't see the sky or the stars. It's almost like, outside of this town nothing else exists anymore, a town where you can't go beyond the edge. The gigantic hand says "Stay where you are. You have no choice." It's like the right hand of a judge or a prison warden about to give the signal for an execution.

Naota: When you're in a town like this all covered with smoke, you forget that there's a world outside. Nothing amazing happens here. And you get used to that, used to a world where everything is ordinary. Every day we spend here is like a whole lifetime of dying slowly. But now Haruko is here. That's how I know there really is a world outside.

[Amarao and Kitsurubami are examining a hand-shaped structure on a bank of televisions]

Kitsurubami: It's... a hand, isn't it?

Amarao: It's a hand.

Mamimi: Finally, I think I can forgive all of them after this

Amarao: Cats should stick with other cats, it's only natural.

Amarao:Where are your eyebrows? Why did you take them off? I told you not to trust her. She's only thinking about herself. She doesn't care what happens to you; she doesn't care what happens to anyone. But you have family and friends who live here, and that high school girl, you want to save her, don't you? Of course you do; that's normal; you're thinking like an adult. Come over here. Don't let her manipulate you. [Naota goes to Haruko] What are you doing? How much pain before you realize? Are you out of your mind? You brat!

Amarao: [to Haruko] This is insane! You're doing exactly what Medical Mechanica wants! They're flattening planets all over the galaxy... smoothing out the wrinkles so you can't think! Even the Pirate King has been captured! They're using him to lure you in! It's over! IT'S ALL OVER!

Haruko: I said I don't CARE about any of that. I just want Atomsk, that's all. I don't care what happens to this planet. They'll have to learn to 'think smooth', I guess!

Amarao:[Naota has just emerged from Canti's head, glowing bright red] The kid? Did he do it? HE GOT THE POWERS OF THE PIRATE KING! ATOMSK!

Haruko:[suddenly enraged, gritting her teeth] Ta-kun, you can't DO THAT! That power's MINE!

Amarao:She's just as bad as Medical Mechanica! You're not going to get what you want from her! FIGHT BACK, TAKE HER OUT!

Naota: [Naota 'lets go' of his powers as the Pirate King just in time not to hurt Haruko, to Haruko] I love you.

Haruko: I lost him again because of you, Ta-kun, we couldn't pull it off. You wanna come along? [pauses] Know what? Forget it. 'Cause you're still a kid, Ta-kun. Save it for next time.

Naota: Nothing amazing happens here. Everything is ordinary. We crossed the bridge as usual, and before we knew it the seasons had changed. Mamimi left town. She said she wanted to be a photographer. I don’t know what happened to her after that.